| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: and dignified.
"You love her?" she asked once, and jerked that doubt into my
mind.
I struggled with tangled ideas and emotions. "I don't know what
love is. It's all sorts of things--it's made of a dozen strands
twisted in a thousand ways."
"But you want her? You want her now--when you think of her?"
"Yes," I reflected. "I want her--right enough."
"And me? Where do I come in?"
"I suppose you come in here."
"Well, but what are you going to do?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and
the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.
"Augrh!" said Father Wolf. "It is time to hunt again." He was
going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail
crossed the threshold and whined: "Good luck go with you, O Chief
of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble
children that they may never forget the hungry in this world."
It was the jackal--Tabaqui, the Dish-licker--and the
wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making
mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather
from the village rubbish-heaps. But they are afraid of him too,
The Jungle Book |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: "Ah, Diana! Ah, Satellite!" he exclaimed, teasing them; "so you
are going to show the moon-dogs the good habits of the dogs of
the earth! That will do honor to the canine race! If ever we
do come down again, I will bring a cross type of `moon-dogs,'
which will make a stir!"
"If there _are_ dogs in the moon," said Barbicane.
"There are," said Michel Ardan, "just as there are horses, cows,
donkeys, and chickens. I bet that we shall find chickens."
"A hundred dollars we shall find none!" said Nicholl.
"Done, my captain!" replied Ardan, clasping Nicholl's hand.
"But, by the bye, you have already lost three bets with our
From the Earth to the Moon |
